{"product_id":"9780141394404-malay-archipelago-the","title":"The Malay Archipelago","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOf all the Victorian travelogues, this book offers an account of some eight years' travel across the entire Malay world - from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea - and as the record of a great mind.\u003cbr\u003eOf all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, \u003ci\u003eThe Malay Archipelago\u003c\/i\u003e has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight years' travel across the entire Malay world - from Singapore to the western edges of New Guinea - and as the record of a great mind.  As Wallace, often under conditions of terrible hardship and sickness, battles through jungles, lives with headhunters, and collects beetles, butterflies and birds-of-paradise, he makes discoveries about the workings of biology that have shaped our view of the world ever since.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31329227669601,"sku":"9780141394404","price":13.07,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32394778.jpg?v=1737224591","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141394404-malay-archipelago-the","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}